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Friday, February 14, 2014

Sino-Pak Relations are Based on Brotherly Friendship; Not on Political & Economic Interests

Friends Forever

There is no country in the world
who happen to have a neighbor like India, a cunning and arch enemy involved in
terrorism, explosions in public places and with grand designs in the region. In
contrast to this Pakistan has another neighboring country that is far more
powerful economically and defense wise i.e. China but she has been steadfast
over diplomatic values and right of neighbors. Especially for Pakistan, Chinese
strategy is above international political conspiracies, deals over regional
affairs or mutual trade. The basic reason of such exemplary friendship might be
the Pakistan’s friendly gesture towards China in 1950 when including USA,
Western countries had concerns regarding Mao Tse Tung’s ideologies. At such time when Western countries were planning
against China, considering socialist culture of China as a threat to their
imperialist system, only Pakistan came forward for friendship with China. Due
to the Pakistan’s diplomatic struggle Chinese relations with other Islamic
countries were established and this credit also goes to Pakistan for
establishing secret relations between USA and China and paved way for US
President’s visit to China. After successful visit of China and meetings with
Chinese officials when US President returned Washington; the stories of
Pakistan’s role for US-China relations had been reported to Western Media; so
Western and US Media termed it as;

PAKSITAN AND
CHINA FRIENDSHIP; AS HIGHER THAN THE MOUNTAINS, DEEPER THAN THE OCEANS,
STRONGER THAN STEEL, DEARER THAN EYESIGHT, SWEETER THAN HONEY AND SO ON…

Karokarm Highway; Link between Pakistan & China

2007
was a test of Pak-China friendship when students of Laal Masjid abducted and
took hostage Chinese working at a massage center in Islamabad allegedly for
being involved in adultery. According to the students of Jamia Hafza the act of
taking Chinese workers as hostage was a part of their campaign adultery started
in March 2007 when they have taken a woman namely “Shameem” and her daughter in
law for allegedly running a brothel and were released after they repented. 2
males and 3 females of Chinese Massage Center were released after two days
through successful dialogues with Police. However, US, Indian and Western media
portrayed this incident as a charge-sheet against China. US govt. strictly
criticized China and her policies regarding human rights over this incident
that in its own country China has pronounced harsh punishments and banned
adultery while China has established such centers in her neighboring country. Over
this Vice President of China demanded operation against Laal Masjid. After this
whatever happened and the role played by Pakistani media is not a secret to
anyone.

Aerial view of Gwadar Port

International
analysts divide Pakistan’s friendship with China in four stages i.e.

From 1950 to 1965 when friendship was limited to diplomatic issues
and supporting each other over international level. Pakistan supported China
unconditionally in Tibet, Taiwan and disputes with India and China supported
Pakistan over Kashmir dispute against India.

From 1965 to 1979 in which many defense deals were signed;
strategic alliance was established and construction of Karokaram Highway was
completed for which hundreds of Chinese and Pakistanis laid down their lives.

1979 to 1999 when defense equipment and full support for nuclear
technology was provided by China which helped Pakistan to minimize dependence
over West.

4th stage is after 1999; in 1999 China provided
nuclear power plant for production of electricity, production of Al-Khalid Tank
MBT-2000 in 2001 through mutual cooperation of both countries considered to be
one of the best tanks of the world,
offer of China to develop Gwadar port in 2002 and signing of deal for
development of Gwadar port in 2005 and completion of development work six
months ahead of planned time are such examples of cooperation between both
countries that have created concerns for many countries including USA and
India.

I have several times written that current
wave of violence in Baluchistan started in 2002 after signing of deal between
Pakistan and China for construction of Gwadar and arrival of Chinese engineers
and workers for construction. Initially this remained confined to protest
statements that construction of Gwadar port is a conspiracy to make Baloch
devoid of their rights, down grade their status to that of Red Indians and to
capture resources of Baluchistan by Punjabi establishment; threats were issued
of treason against Federation. When these threats had no effect murder of
Chinese engineers along with attacks over military convoys, govt.
installations, trains and gas transmission lines. When any militant trying to
target Chinese was killed by security personnel deployed for security of
Chinese guests; so-called independent Pakistani media also joined the chorus of
international media against Pakistan govt. Remaining away from Pakistan’s
internal politics Chinese kept working on the construction of Gwadar port and
jolted the whole world by completing the project six months ahead of the
projected time. How was this possible that anti-Pakistan power remain inactive
over such an achievement which has opened new horizons for Pakistan’s economy?
India and USA active against China also took completion of Gwadar port as a
siren against their interests in the
region and kept supporting Baloch militants considering it as easy solution for
destruction of Pakistani economy. The result of this foreign support to Baloch
insurgents is that now the activities of these terrorists have been spread to
outside Baluchistan, Karachi in Sindh and Rojhan and Rahim Yar Khan in Punjab. But
all these foreign terrorist activities have no impact on Sino-Pak friendship
and joint plans of defense. The current example is the interest of KSA and
other Arabic countries in JF-17 Thunder that are now being produced in Pakistan
through the cooperation of China.

Sino-Pak Nuclear deal that has made whole world worried

The recent friendly gesture of China is
the plan to construct nuclear power plant in Karachi estimated cost to be 6.5
billion and to be completed till 2019. A new wave of propaganda against
Pak-China friendship has been observed as a reaction to this plan. This
propaganda is regarding security of Pakistan’s nuclear assets, nuclear
proliferation and quoting example of Japan’s Fukushima power plant that was
destroyed during Tsunami after which not only Japan but Germany and other
countries have announced to minimize their dependence over nuclear power plants
for production of electricity. However, after few years not only Japan has
announced to restart her shut-down nuclear power plants but other countries
have also started fulfilling their plans to meet energy requirements. Not only
438 nuclear power plants working in 31 countries are running but construction
of 71 nuclear power plants have also been restarted that was stopped after
Japan’s nuclear accident.

Pakistan is the only country of Muslim
world that has nuclear capability and according to Western Defense analysts
Pakistan’s nuclear technology and is much better and cost effective than other
nuclear powers which has provided Pakistan a chance to increase its nuclear
capability in lesser time. Currently Pakistan has 3 working nuclear power
plants while Chashma power plant 2 and 3 are under construction. Construction
of two more power plants has been started in Karachi. It is evident that not
only Pakistan is well aware of nuclear power for defense purposes but also well
aware of demands for security of nuclear power plants installed for production
of electricity and well experienced as well. In fact Pakistan’s defense is not
possible without strong economy in future and economy needs energy which should
be cheaper as well. That is why while trying to fulfill energy demands through
Petroleum and Gas Pakistan has already been left much far behind in the race of
economic development.

Gwadar Port; that is being termed as milestone for Pakistan's Economy

But painful aspect is that objections and
propaganda against Pak-China deal for construction nuclear power plants have
been started from within Pakistan. Some writers are spreading stories
fabricated by western media regarding corruption in Pak-China deals while other
stuck to the Fukushima accident and trying to threaten Pakistanis but at the
same time they are not ready to support construction of Kala Bagh dam for
procuring cheaper energy. If only on the basis of accidents use of modern
technology should be avoided than passenger planes, trains, cars etc. should be
banned as well. But here the neither the problem is of the construction of the
nuclear power plants through the support of China (which Pakistan needs on
emergency basis to fulfill energy demands) nor of the corruption in Pak-China
deals. But the actual problem is of the Pak-China friendship, defense and
economic cooperation and brotherly relationship which has not been accepted by
enemies of Pakistan from the first day but this journey of friendship would
continue because its base is not upon political or trade interests but on the
pure relations…